Bevab
Staff Member
Didn’t really see the ball do anything weird as a result of the pitch. Saw a few deliveries keep a bit too low or high from the spinners and I thought Rabada had to vary his pace and deliveries quite frequently to extract something (which Jansen failed miserably at). In any case you can’t face nearly half of the deliveries bowled and score at a significantly below par rate when the rest were finding boundaries easily every over or two (and these were Axar and Dube for the most part). When he did try to be aggressive after all the passiveness he initially struggled to time the ball too. It’s a poor knock but will be held up as something extraordinary if SA implode or the Indian bowlers turn up.
Bumrah could be a handful on this pitch as could all three spinners and Hardik. Arshdeep is a bit of a wildcard but I think he may be good today.
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My brother in Christ, Dube has half the number of boundaries as Kohli despite facing nearly one-fourth of the deliveries.
That knock by Kohli is not really defendable irrespective of the result. I can only hope that we win for his sake so that it doesn’t become his ultimate legacy in this format, I think the man deserves better.
